Report Shows BC Planters Working for Half What They Used To

A silviculture industry report summarizing the key drivers affecting prices and wages in the silviculture sector says planters’ piece work rates are worth half what they were in 2000. That same declining trend is true for profits in an industry that has been shedding experienced workers and contractors for over ten years. The figures in the report were used to frame an earlier analysis recommending contractors and customers reverse industry’s losses by bidding and negotiating prices up to 20 percent higher.